Serbia conditions: There's no deal without dawning the fate of the found”

The five Wolfani family boys, on the day of April 16, 99, recently left their home in the village of Vinovc. Everyone under 20 years of age.

They never came back. From what their family members know, it is said that on April 19th of that year they fell into the hands of Serbian paramilitaries.

Today, Halil Wolfan knows nothing about the fate of his five missing sons. Not rarely do he hope to be alive somewhere, and sometimes he remembers the words he once heard that his children were shot.

It's hard, 20 years since they were chicken birds with gows, that's not over. Day after night, we think of them. But it's been working a little bit, it's working a little bit. I am not surprised by Serbia, as far from our own, few of ours worked”, he says.

The five missing boys left the empty house. Today, only their procrastinated parents live there.

For Halilin, it is very difficult to hear about agreement with Serbia, while his five sons are not mentioned by anyone.

Kosovo never managed to put the issue of the dead in its agenda with Serbia.

Since 2013, when the two states signed agreements on normalisation of relations, with the European Union mediators, they talked about the telecom, energy, the removal of the barricade over the Iber River, and other issues, but at the Brussels table failed to meet the demands of missing persons' families.

Of the representatives of the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, there were promises every time. It was said that they are constantly demanding that this topic be part of the dialogue, but there were no results.

Bajram Qerkeyni, who speaks on behalf of families of missing persons, requires that there be no finalisation of the Kosovo- Serbia saw this topic get into talks.

There's no good in Brussels, if it's time for all the deals to be done, right back, don't let the fate of the undiscovered, or don't let the issue of signing agreements for the missing persons get out of Kosovo, better not come to Kosovo hic, better not get off the airport. Because these 1600 people aren't cows, even cows with tow 1600, grab the airport door, tell you, did you forget the kids? All these children found are not just my children, they are the president's children, because he has responsibilities, and he should be responsible if he doesn't deal with the missing persons”, he said.

This year, while the Undiscovered Persons' Week was being marked, Hashim Thaci had said he expressed his commitment as president to whitewashing the fate of missing persons.

Belgrade's “Authorities must respond and provide data to over 1600 found. This issue should be extended to Brussels as well because it no longer expects, for this expression my commitment as President”. “We will not list efforts for this war plague to be closed down as soon as possible to find peace and reconciliation. We bow before every witness and fall for the freedom of the country”, Thaci had declared.

Today, when final agreements with Serbia are ongoing, family demands are being repeated, so that this topic does not remain out of dialogue.

Such a request is made by the son of the missing event, Walker Hott.

MP Andin Hoti says he will not support any other initiative without this issue being put into dialogue.

I won't allow, as far as I have the power, to finalise any agreement with Serbia, without closure, without discussing the issue of missing presidents, at a high level.1.24....4.53 I expect this issue to be discussed, I as Kosovo Parliament deputy do not think to support any initiative, I do not think to vote on any other initiative without even this issue being put into the Kosovo-Serbia dialog”, he says.

Stressing that the issue is high above all priorities, Hoti reiterated that Serbia has the data for Kosovo's missing.

Hoti, is one of the initials of the resolution that was voted in the Kosovo Assembly, where the issue of the missing is said to be a precondition of talks with Serbia, and that the same should be part of the state platform for dialogue with Serbia.

That this topic has had to be from the first points in Brussels, says the chief of negotiations with Serbia, appointed by the Government of Kosovo.

In an interview for KosovoPress, Avni Arifi says it is difficult at this time to live with the feeling that the families of missing persons have.

With the implementation of existing agreements, we need to sit down as a society, as a political class and discuss whether we should continue with this process, or we should create a new process, is the process of identifying subjects has been the process in which both sides should agree, in this sense I can see why there has been no missing part of the negotiations, but people had to be the first point of negotiations or the first agreement that should be discussed. In the future you don't know me or whoever is in this position to have a new deal, there will be a very big focus and once and for all, light up this issue because it's really hard for all these years to live with what the missing family members of” have, Arifi says.

In the Republic of Kosovo 18 years after the war, over 1600 missing persons are unknown.

Family members still live in the hope that at least they can find their bones and have a tomb where they can plant flowers for them.

Serbian paramilitaries killed and massacred large numbers of Albanians during the recent war in Kosovo. Some of them disappeared, and their country no longer said a word about their whereabouts.

Kosovo institutions and associations representing families of missing people say Serbia has all the information on the locations of the mass cemetery.

While the state of Serbia negotiating with Kosovo to reach a final agreement, it has never expressed readiness for co-operation on the issue.

Kadri Jusuf, who found his son's body immediately after the war, relates the pain he and his family experience, since they lack other people, including their brother.

It's hard for us to find their destiny not to make a deal. These bones, we know where they are, and then they get it. Without finding these 1600s there's no deal, there's got to be no deal with them, the United Nations pressure on us, we're always worried, let's find at least their bones for days where they're”, he says.

While Prenk Lokaj, chairman of the government Commission for Missing Persons, tells Kosovo that it must force Serbia to co-operate to whiteen all the missing.

We have been constantly interested, in a way we have become spokespersons of family members, of their demands, that this issue be on the negotiating table and that the Serb side will be forced to show the whereabouts of the mass cemetery, as 1650 people are still identified missing, normally not only we are convinced, but there are information, there is mass cemetery in Serbia. So Serbia must be forced to be co-operative in this direction and to find all those missing”, he said.

According to him, politics is holding this issue hostage. The find says Serbia can do a lot but lacks will, so pressure must be put on it.

Family members are less satisfied with the importance given to this subject from postwar times on.

Saying the political class is becoming aware, however, Bajram Qerkeyni says there is not enough political will and that one can hardly understand the pain family members have for 18 years now.

4.2 It's said that the competencies were taken over a year ago, we were here even a year ago, we were here even after the war, we were supposed to postpone both UNMIK and EULEX, all the internationals who have been here, and the ambassadors, to apply to make the fate of the found. The QUINT states have all photos of what happened in Kosovo, how many have asked our leaders, how many times they've asked for documentation to whiteen the fate of the undiscovered. I've been working on government commission. I'm not happy with their work. Now they say family members are not satisfied until the last one is found. I'm not happy with the job that's got bo and you don't have a boo. There is no responsibility in Kosovo for the work it does not do”, he said.

That this case has dragged on and so has MP Andy Hoti.

According to him, Kosovo has never taken the issue of missing people seriously.

Kosovo has not taken the issue of missing seriously, perhaps taken but seriously no, so it is the time of the end, since it is the end of dialogue, that the issue be the priority of the Kosovo Government in Brussels. Of course it is Brussels' side, because we cannot impose it on Serbia, is Brussels, the European Union, what should do its pressure and resolve this issue. This issue should not only be seen as political, it is more human than political”, he says.

We remember that various tables have been organised on the issue of the missing, and various governments are said to be seeking to put it on the negotiating agenda in Brussels.

However, the subject was sometimes mentioned only at the technical level.

It was also discussed at the London Summit, and working groups have been formed to discuss the subject.

Today, 18 years after the war, until they hear of the finalisation of the Kosovo-Serbia agreement, Halil Wolfani and others, they know nothing about the fate of their loved ones.